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From: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland)
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Subject: Re: <None>
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Date: 11 Jan 91 03:29:10 GMT
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In article <1991Jan9.151250.14354@cck.cov.ac.uk> csg019@cck.cov.ac.uk (-~=Zaphod=~-) writes:
>>Is their Amiga 1500 out???  Just saw an ad for one in the Amiga Ueser International.  Any one have scoop on it???? 
>>
>Yes there is, i've got one. It's not by commodore, its by a UK firm called 
>checkmate. All it does is turn your amiga A500 into a PC lookalike...

But there's more... the Amiga 1500  (as opposed to the A1500
above)  is a Commodore-UK machine which is simply an Amiga 2000
with two floppies.  The 2000 seems to have a hard drive standard
in the UK  (unconfirmed), so the 1500 fills the gap.


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